December 23, 2011

We all know this despicable act would've been all over the front page of every newspaper and the top story on all media outlets IF the situation had been reversed. The media is rarely interested in publicising stories that don't fit their "muslims are victims" mantra.

Absolute shame on law enforcement for ignoring this brutal attack.

Note: Cowardly muslims rarely attack one on one preferring to act like a pack of lowlife jackals against a lone victim.

Pakistani Muslims assault Tommy Robinson

Tommy Robinson has been attacked, he was lured into a honey trap and then beaten by a gang of Muslim males, the bait for this trap was a white girl, this in itself poses many questions, was this girl a Muslim convert, was she being forced into doing what she did or was she the willing bait and only too pleased to lure a man into a beating, who knows.

Tommy was beaten unconscious, the gang of males - all Pakistani continued kicking him whilst he was down, no doubt the girl looked on taking pleasure from the beating Tommy was receiving.

The police were not involved, indeed as Tommy says "they are not interested in racist attacks on white people", this is true of all such episodes not just the attack on Tommy, one can only hope that natural justice takes its course and all involved in this assault receive their just desserts - and that includes the girl

Is it not truly amazing that the MSM have N OT carried this story, I can find no trace of this, the SUN was contacted but there is no reference to this attack in today's issue that I can see (9am 23/12/11)

December 12, 2011

In 2008, while arguing for the need to formally introduce Sharia law into the law of the United Kingdom, the Archbishop of Canterbury claimed Sharia law was “inevitable” in the UK . He denied it was an “alien” system and called for “constructive accommodation” of Muslim law. He did this in a calculated and provocative manner, while denying a place for its more “extreme punishments.”

It is unlikely that many members of the Muslim community would be satisfied with an Anglican primate determining the limitations of the Quran and Sharia law.

This argument was rapidly followed by the Lord Chief Justice: Lord Phillips helpfully said there was a place for Sharia law, particularly in mediation. He lamented the “widespread misunderstanding” of Sharia law. The newly established Muslim Arbitration Tribunals immediately put a picture of the Lord Chief Justice on their website in appreciation of his endorsement.

In the United Kingdom, the many thousands of Sharia courts can quietly go about their business of implementing “justice” in a form totally “alien” to the Judeo-Christian tradition, denying human rights to many of our citizens — particularly women.

The “constructive accommodation” of Muslim law reached a logical conclusion with the declaration this year of Sharia law controlled zones in a number of areas geographically spread over the country, where the Islamist militants enforce their will. Their posters declare: “No music or concerts, no porn or prostitution, no drugs or smoking, no gambling, no alcohol.” A reign of terror has begun, with threats of implicit violence against anyone who “insults” Islam, changes religion, or fails to dress appropriately. I have already been contacted about assisting two individuals subject to Islamist threats.

The police stand passively by, adhering to their diversity training.

If the Labour Party had won the last general election in 2010, I believe they would have introduced Sharia law into the United Kingdom. Things have changed for the better since David Cameron became prime minister — he has criticized “state multiculturalism” as causative of terrorism and radicalism. An inquiry of the Ministry of Justice into the operation of Sharia courts had to be stopped as Muslim leaders refused to cooperate with the government; they wanted to continue to execute Sharia law in secrecy. However, this has only heightened concerns. A Conservative peer has sought to introduce legislation delimiting the operation of Sharia courts as discriminatory against women. The home secretary has at last refused entry visas to “hate preachers” like Zakir Naik. (The last Labour government welcomed Hezbollah terrorists to lecture the police on “political Islam.”)

When I was a boy growing up in London, as Roger Kimball has written, terms like “Sharia” and “jihad” were anthropological phrases analogous to witch burning, using leeches to draw blood, and cannibalism. It would have been beyond my comprehension that our political elite would seek to introduce this medieval system into one of the most advanced societies in the world.

Sharia law is the antithesis of law as representative of rational human endeavor to alleviate the human condition.

In this short piece, it is not possible to fully illuminate the “establishment” of Islam in the United Kingdom (as described by the First Amendment). I can only give examples.

An interesting case of mine involved a church in a part of the country declared a “Sharia law controlled zone.” The church had existed for about 150 years, but it was served with a noise pollution notice for the singing of hymns on a Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. As the notice was served, the council officer said: “This is a Muslim area.” (Naturally, this statement was denied in court.)

However, it was the court experience which was most disturbing; the local court was in an area with a high Muslim population, and the majority of the judges hearing the case were Muslim. The court closed the church. I thought the only image missing from the scene was about 200 mullahs demonstrating outside the court for the death of the infidels.

The case was appealed, and moved to a district that was predominantly English (where the appeal court was situated). The court opened the church.

This case was similar to a case where Muslim police officers prevented two street preachers, Arthur Cunningham and Joseph Abraham, from evangelizing in Birmingham. The Muslim police office called it a “hate crime” to seek to convert Muslim youths. A Muslim police office failed to uphold British values: social cohesion requires that the appointment of Muslim judges and police officers is in accordance with British standards and values.

In 2005, the BBC broadcast Jerry Springer — The Opera. It conformed to the usual high standards of the BBC: Jesus in a nappy; Jesus a “little bit gay”; the fondling of Jesus’s genitals. Fifty-five thousand complaints were received, and ignored — the BBC governors declared the program “artistically exceptional.” There was legal action against the BBC, but they bravely defended themselves — using taxpayers’ money — by asserting their willingness to challenge sensitivities. No apology was given.

How brave. Yet their courage seems to fail with Islam, and there has yet to be such an “artistically exceptional” program on Mohammed (nor will there ever be).

This must be juxtaposed with a BBC program titled Question Time, a flagship political discussion program in which free speech is vital to open debate. Mr. Charles Moore, a former editor of the Sunday Telegraph and the Spectator magazine, openly criticized the Muslim Council of Britain for not condemning the killing and kidnapping of British troops overseas and suggested they thought it was a “good thing.” The BBC offered a £30,000 payment from taxpayers’ money, along with an apology. No attempt was made to defend free speech.

If this decision by the BBC had been challenged as inconsistent with their position to the Christian community, it would have been dismissed by the court (with costs to pay).

In 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the underwear bomber) appeared on the world scene. He is the fourth British Muslim student leader in three years to be implicated in terrorist activity. He was a devout Nigerian student, clearly radicalized during his time at London University — many of our universities have become hotbeds of Islamic radicalism, where Jewish students keep a low profile. Of course, London University commissioned a report and denied that Umar was radicalized while in their educational care, and they defended the right of free speech. Undaunted, Islamic hate preachers continue to appear regularly at London University.

U.S. readers can rest assured that the university authorities and student unions are taking decisive measures against dangerous and radical religious groups. I was recently contacted by the Exeter University Christian Union after they were expelled from the student union for having a discriminatory membership policy. The policy? Requiring members to be … Christians! I ought to say that at the time, my U.S. colleagues assured me that no Christian society at any U.S. university would ever suffer such a “silly” fate because of the First Amendment.

Poor Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang entered a religious discussion with a Muslim guest at their bed and breakfast hotel in Liverpool. Foolishly in a private conversation, they described Mohammed as a “warlord.” They were prosecuted by the police.

The evidence was so bad that the judge effectively threw the case out (and it is instructive to note that a Muslim guest gave evidence on behalf of the couple), but this was not before a year of awaiting trial and the devastation of their business. Their bed and breakfast had been used by the local hospital, which now refused to use such an Islamophobic hostel. The state used its economic powers to ensure that British citizens’ private religious views conform to state policy.

Simultaneously, the British police act in the vanguard of the Islamification of Britain by selectively terrorizing the British population to use only the “free speech rights” of which they approve. In 2007, Channel 4 produced a documentary titled Undercover Mosque which showed video of imams saying things like: “You have to bomb the Indian businesses and, as for the Jews, you kill them physically,” among a whole range of other religious speech advocating violent jihad. A clear case of a “hate crime,” no?

The Crown Prosecution Service said no charges should be brought, and the police announced they would consider prosecuting Channel 4 for showing the documentary.

You can imagine what the average British citizen thinks. The Islamists can say what they want; anyone who criticizes this or shows it will be prosecuted by the police. Of course, Channel 4 is big enough and wealthy enough to defend itself — they sued the police for libel. The police capitulated and paid £100,000 to Channel 4, and accepted “without reservation” that the documentary was accurate and dealt with the subject matter responsibly.

The question remains: why have the imams not been arrested? And why have the police officers themselves not been arrested for interfering with the administration of justice?

Many British employers permit the hijab, but not a cross, and so on and so forth. I could continue, but I am sure you get the picture. Islam is becoming the established religion. However, while the Islamists welcome it, the causative reason is a liberal elite who are “fellow travelers” with a primitive juristic system. The Labour Party and Democratic Party are sympathetic to religious practice that discriminates against women, homosexuals, and Jews — everything they purport to be against.

This could be coming to a state near you sooner than you think.

Paul Diamond is the leading religious rights barrister in the United Kingdom.

July 09, 2011

Should we be surprised?

Reposted - link in title

A reader in London just sent us the following photo, which is fairly self-explanatory:

He included this note:

Please see attached a poster seen stuck on to a bus stop on corner of Mission Grove and Carisbrooke Road, London E17. Signs of subtlety in the message — avoiding items that might be thought of as controversial like killing homosexuals and stuffing women in bags.

I’ve extracted the poster from the image and removed the foreshortening to make a more readable copy:

June 23, 2011

This was a political sham from the get go concocted by a dhimmis to curry favor with muslims. Geert Wilders only "crime" was speaking the truth about Islam. Interesting no matter how vile or hate-filled muslim demonstrations and speeches are - no one drags them up infront of a tribunal or court for hate speech. Muslims clearly have protected status in the West - paving the way for EuroMed?

Let's hope this ruling helps to clear the way for open and honest debate and reaction to the onslaught muslims are conducting against our culture, laws and way of life.

Right-wing politician Geert Wilders was today cleared by a Dutch court of inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims.

The court in Amsterdam ruled that Mr Wilders' anti-Islam statements, while offensive to many Muslims, fell within the bounds of legitimate political debate.

Presiding judge Marcel van Oosten said the politician's claims that Islam was violent by nature and his calls to halt Muslim immigration and ban the Koran must be seen in a wider context over immigration policy.

Not guilty: Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders was today acquitted of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims

'Free speech': Mr Wilders had claimed the charges against him were politically-motivated and said an 'enormous burden' had been removed from his shoulders with the ruling

He also ruled that Mr Wilders' public statement could not be directly linked to increased discrimination against Dutch Muslims.

Mr Wilders did not react as the verdict was read out, but supporters in the public gallery hugged one another and clapped after his acquittal.

One of the most powerful and popular politicians in the Netherlands, Mr Wilders was accused of inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims through numerous public statements and with insulting them by comparing Islam with Nazism.

He said outside court: 'I'm incredibly happy with this acquittal on all counts.

'It's not only an acquittal for me, but a victory for freedom of expression in the Netherlands.

'Fortunately, you're allowed to discuss Islam in public debate and you're not muzzled in public debate. An enormous burden has fallen from my shoulders.'

High profile: Mr Wilders, one of the most popular politicians in the Netherlands, was given a police escort to the hearing in Amsterdam

The court found that Mr Wilders' rhetoric was 'on the edge of what is legally permissible', but not illegal.

The judge described statements about a 'tsunami' of immigrants as 'crude and denigrating', but legally legitimate given the wider context and his acknowledgement that those who integrate are acceptable and do not call for violence.

In speeches, written articles and a short film that incited riots around the Muslim world, Mr Wilders said Islam is an inherently violent religion, and he compared the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf - an especially sensitive image because of the large number of Dutch Jews handed over to the Nazis in World War Two.

Mr Wilders argued that his statements represented the views of millions of Dutch voters, that they were protected by freedom of speech law and that the court was biased against him.

June 14, 2011

One wonders if the Specialist Unit - set up months ago - to directly address the massive problem of muslim pedophiles grooming and sexually abusing young British girls - had any involvement with this latest arrest?

Dawn raids across Manchester as police move in on gang who groomed under-age girls at drug-fuelled sex parties

Dozens of vulnerable teenage girls may have been rescued from the clutches of a paedophiles after a major police operation smashed a child sex gang.

Around 100 officers swooped on houses in a series of raids yesterday arresting 10 men suspected of grooming young girls for sex.

The victims were allegedly showered with gifts and then plied with drink and drugs before being taken to special 'sex parties' in Manchester and Salford.

A mattress is taken away from one of the homes raided as part of Operation Windermere

The mattress is hauled into a police forensics van where it will be analysed by officers

At the parties the teenage girls – some as young as 14 - would be compelled to have sex with friends of the gang in what police say was a classic case of ‘sexual grooming and entrapment.’ Last night the men, all aged between 18-28, were being questioned by detectives at a number of different police stations across the North West.

Officers are briefed for the series of raids that were carried out this morning. The investigation involved around 100 detectives

The police investigation was launched after a number of girls in Stockport alerted social workers claiming they were being abused.

Assistant Chief Constable Terry Sweeney of Greater Manchester Police said: ‘It is alleged the girls were groomed by individuals who then passed the girls on to friends. It was classic grooming - providing alcohol, drugs and free food, consequently leading to sexual entrapment.

‘I hope today's action shows people that the issue of sexual exploitation is one that we take extremely seriously.’ And he has appealed for help in combating sex gangs who prey on vulnerable young girls and commit ‘horrific’ abuse.

He said: ‘'These young people are very much often left out of society in some way and were craving care and love. It seems they were provided with food and love, McDonalds food and drugs.

Search: A suited forensics officer leaves the address in the Mosside area of Manchester where the raid took place

The raids were part of a three-month investigation into the exploitation of teenage girls

‘I think the abuse can be stopped by the community working with us and telling us what is going on. If you see young males talking girls into flats and houses we would like the public to tell us about it.’ In January a gang of eight Asian men from Rochdale was arrested accused of targeting more than a dozen underage white girls with drink and drugs before turning them into sex slaves.

Last week they were charged of a variety of offences relating to sexual activity with girls under 16, rape, child prostitution and child trafficking.

Figures shows there have been 18 sex gang prosecutions since 1997 - 15 in the last three years - involving girls aged 11-16.

Last year a middle-class, privately-educated schoolgirl - also from Rochdale - was rescued after being forced to act as a sex slave to a gang of Asian men.

The troubled 14-year-old was targeted with vodka and cigarettes after being spotted by the gang wandering the streets.

She was made to have sex with a string of men before being pimped out as a white under age prostitute in Manchester city centre..

Nine men - all Asian - were later jailed after admitting a series of serious sexual offences against the teenage girl including facilitating child prostitution.

I think it's important to note that all of the headlines in the news reports in Portuguese call the murderer an Islamic suicide bomber and report that his letter refers to Islam, while none of the English outlets are reporting this critical clue.

"In recent months, she said, he appeared to have got closer to Islam."

At least 11 people, mostly children, died Thursday and more that 15 were wounded when an armed man attacked a school in Realengo in the poor suburbs of Rio de Janeiro.

According to a preliminary police report, the attacker - a 24- year-old former student at the school - was among the dead after shooting himself in the head. He attacked Tasso da Silveira school, where some 400 students ages 9-14 were in classes. [...]

Beltrami described the letter as 'the words of a person who no longer believes in anything, full of sentences that made no sense and references to Islamic fundamentalism.'

Huh? He no longer believes in anything but made references to Islam?

Beltrami said the attacker was friendly as he went into the school, chatting with administrators and teachers and asking for permission to address the children. When he reached the third floor of the building, the suspect entered one of the classrooms and started to shoot at students, killing nine girls and one boy.

The attacker apparently committed suicide upon being chased by a police officer who had been called in by a student who managed to escape the building

Roselane de Oliveira, a sister of the attacker, told Rio de Janeiro radio station Band News that the young man 'was very strange.'

'He had no friends, and he spent all his time on the Internet,' she said.

In recent months, she said, he appeared to have got closer to Islam.

Police stressed, however, that there was no concrete evidence that the attack had either a religious or a political motive.

Witnesses tell how gunman opened fire on pupils at Tasso da Silveira primary school in Rio de Janeiro

As many as 20 pupils are feared dead after a gunman opened fire in a primary school in western Rio de Janeiro.

The vice-mayor of western Rio said 13 people had died in the shooting at Tasso da Silveira primary school, although it was not clear if that figure was accurate or included the attacker. Edmar Teixeira said the gunman was a 24-year-old former student who pretended to be giving a speech to students before opening fire with two handguns. When police appeared at the scene the gunman shot himself dead, Teixeira said. He left behind a letter outlining his motives.

One witness told the Guardian he had seen between 15 and 20 children dead or seriously wounded.

"It is a massacre, a true massacre," said Roni de Macedo, a fireman who arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting began and dragged eight seriously injured children from the school.

"There is blood on the walls, blood on the chairs. There are 15 to 20 dead I think," said De Macedo, who was covered in blood. "I've never seen anything like this. It's like something in the United States."

March 24, 2011

I have written several blogs on the horrific abuse suffered by imported Asian maids at the hands of their muslim sponsors/employers in Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries. Directly below, my original post, is the latest indication that nations are noticing and trying to spare their women from abuse and death .- see current news article beneath this blog:

While browsing the web, yesterday, I viewed the Arab Times online site and came across several news articles about the rape and abuse of maids in Kuwait. I was surprised at the cluster of cases so I searched the web for more information and was nearly knocked off my chair when I realized the enormous extent of the huge numbers of foreign maids suffering abuse at the hands of their Middle East "sponsors". To use the term "maid" is a misnomer - these women (and boys) are nothing more than modern day SLAVES. Slaves to be abused, raped, tortured, maimed, and killed.

Many of these maids come into the Middle East (particularly Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Lebanon) from Indonesia, the Phillipines, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia - smaller numbers come from India and Bangladesh. Saudi Arabia has the largest number of these imported domestics estimated at 200,000 in 2004. These maids are seen as inferiors to their Middle Eastern masters and many countries do not even recognize them as being covered by labor laws - including minimum wage:

"The plight of domestic workers in Lebanon rose to the spotlight during the summer of 2006, when Israel launched a thirty-four-day military offensive on Lebanon. In Arabic, the term "Abed" is used to denote a "black" person or "slave" and the word is sometimes heard in reference to Africans or Sri Lankans. Non-Arab Afro-Asian migrants in Lebanon are physically looked upon as inferior due to their positions as servants. These workers remain excluded under Article 6 of Lebanese labour laws and are often victims of abuse by both employers and agencies." LINK

The vast majority of these women are seeking an opportunity to earn money and send remittances back to their families -

".......Phillipines, where the economy relies heavily on remittances from nearly eight million Filipinos working overseas. Of that eight million, about 73,000 work in Kuwait. Some 60,000 are women employed mainly as maids and earning less than $200 a month on average, labor groups say.

Some of these woman do quickly realize the danger and manage to escape in a few days. But, many of the remaining "servants" are left in a living nightmare.

Madagascar flies home maids abused in Lebanon

Indonesians protesting against a maid killing in Saudi Arabia where her body was dumped in a bin by her employers

ANTANANARIVO (AFP)

Madagascar's government early Thursday flew home 86 women domestic workers from Lebanon who had been subjected to abuse amid concerns over the deaths of 17 Madagascan maids in the past year.

Population Minister Nadine Ramaroson said at Antananarivo airport as she welcomed the women that most of them "had run away from their employers."

"Their return home was negotiated by the Madagascan consul in Lebanon after either the women themselves or their families asked for them to be repatriated," Ramaroson said.

The government decided to charter a plane after numerous cases of abuse were reported. The Population Ministry received more than 600 repatriation requests from maids or their families.

The Union of Qualified Domestic Workers (SPDTS), a non-governmental organization that helps the victims and their families, says that in the past year alone 17 Madagascan maids in Lebanon died from abuse suffered at the hands of their employers.

"There have been a lot of deaths," Prime Minister Camille Vital said. "That's why the government has decided to repatriate those who wanted to come home. The government is paying for this repatriation."

On their arrival at the airport the young women were met by social workers from SPDTS and by staff from different ministries tasked with providing medical care and counseling.

"My boss used to hit me and didn't give me my salary. I'm very, very happy to be back home," said 25-year-old Leonie.

Another woman who gave her name as Augustine said: "The friend with whom I ran away from my boss wasn't able to get on the plane at the last minute. I'm really worried about her. She's not in good shape."

More than 7,000 Madagascans work in Lebanon, according to SPDTS. In 2010 around 500 of them came home before the end of their contract.

March 23, 2011

And as usual - the dhimmified Christian clergy rush to make excuses and protect muslims when the REAL problem is right before their rose-colored glassed eyes = Muslims!!!!!!!!! The people in the Burton area need to "calmly"? address this outrage- immediately- and STOP the intentional defilement of their city and their honorable War Memorial.

"I would like to reassure people living in this area that attacks such as this are extremely rare"

DC Enge clearly doesn't read the newspapers and most definitely doesn't read the police news, TheOPINIONATOR - or any of the other excellent blogs on the web that report daily on unprovoked muslim perpetrated violence against the non-muslim populations of the UK and Europe.

Here's just a few other "extremely rare" examples of baseball bat wielding muslims- for more with hammer and knife attacks - see my archives:

At just after 8am on Friday 14 January 2011, the victim was parking his car on South Court when he was approached by two offenders who then hit him a number of times with a baseball bat and a hammer and stabbed him in the neck.

A third offender was standing nearby and appeared to be keeping a lookout.

The three attackers then made off on foot in the direction of Ramsay Street.

The 38-year-old man was taken to hospital where he was treated for a compound fracture to the head and a stab wound to his neck and back.

The three offenders are all described as being around 19 to 20 years of age and were wearing black balaclavas. One of the offenders is believed to be of a slim build, and another was described as being chubby and wearing a grey tracksuit top and bottoms.

It is believed those responsible for this attack are of Pakistani or Bengali origin, due to the way that they spoke.

Detective Constable Heidi Edge, from the CID at Rochdale, said: "This is a cowardly and unprovoked attack on an innocent man.

"The victim was simply parking his car when he was attacked and this incident has left him injured and badly shaken. He is still recovering in hospital.

"I would like to reassure people living in this area that attacks such as this are extremely rare, but I would appeal to anyone that may have been in the South Court area on the morning of 14 January to get in touch with us and provide us with any information you can."

Anyone who has any information whatsoever about who may be responsible for this assault is urged to contact police on 0161 856 4591 or the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

January 23, 2011

Revulsion and outrage should be running rampant in England as yet another ring of muslim paedophiles have used their perversion and hatred of western women/girls to cause harm to our daughters, nieces, granddaughters, sisters, etc. Revulsion for what is clearly an epidemic of rape jihad by muslim cowards who gang up and rape and in other ways defile little girls - grooming and forcing them into child prostitution.

Of course what do you expect from sorry excuses for men whose own Middle Eastern homelands are rift with child rape of both girls and boys?

"According to the recent statistics given by SAHIL, a non-government organisation, Punjab is on the top of the list for child molestation with 62 percent of such cases, 154 in Lahore and the rest in other cities of Punjab.In total, 68 percent girls and 32 percent boys have been the victims of paedophilia. The number increased by 9.4 percent as compared to 2008. Statistics show that around 81 percent of the cases were registered with the police. The study shows that 2,012 children were reportedly abused in 2009 and most of them were abused by acquaintances." SOURCE

OR

"Child rape is on the rise in Afghanistan's northern provinces... Maghferat Samimi, head of the Afghan Human Rights Organization in Jowzjan, says that over the past two months she has interviewed 19 victims from the three northern provinces she serves. The youngest victim was 2 1/2 years old. Samimi carries the little girl's picture in her mobile phone, ready to show to anyone who might be able to stop what she calls a new plague on her country." SOURCE

OR

"For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover. Literally it means “boy player.” The men like to boast about it.“Having a boy has become a custom for us,” Enayatullah, a 42-year-old in Baghlan province, told a Reuters reporter. “Whoever wants to show off should have a boy.”Baghlan province is in the northeast, but Afghans say pedophilia is most prevalent among Pashtun men in the south. The Pashtun are Afghanistan’s most important tribe. For centuries, the nation’s leaders have been Pashtun." SOURCE

Multiculturalism worshipping politicians have flooded the UK, particularly England, with millions of muslims - with them came "Islamic values" and many of these perverts who are now spreading their demented "enhancement" across our cities and towns.